The Best Premiere Pro Export Settings for TikTok.
Here are the Premiere Pro export settings you want to use for high-quality TikToks.
Also, here are the settings for Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and YouTube if you need those.
Depending on where you’re uploading from, you need to make sure your file isn’t too big when exporting TikTok’s from Premiere Pro.
Premiere Pro Settings.
Format: H.264
Preset: Match Source - Adaptive High Bitrate
Basic Video Settings.
Frame Size: 1080x1920
Frame Rate: 30 or 60 FPS
Field Order: Progressive
Aspect: Square Pixels (1.0)
Render at Maximum Depth: Yes
Use Maximum Render Quality: Yes
Encoding Settings.
Performance: Software Encoding
Profile: Main
Level: 4.1
Export Color Space: Rec. 709
Bitrate Settings.
Bitrate Encoding: VBR, 1 Pass
Target Bitrate: 8 Mbps
Audio.
Audio Format: ACC
Audio Code: ACC
Sample Rate: 4800 Hz
Channels: Stereo
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Captions.
Export Options: Burn Captions Into Video
If any of these settings are grayed out, all you have to do is toggle the checkbox next to it to activate and edit them. Also, depending on your hardware, you might not be able to select some of these settings, and if that's the case, check out each section below for what to do instead.
Then lastly, there are a lot of settings in Premiere Pro, but if I didn't mention them, that means they won't affect the quality of your video.
Format.
H.264 is the current standard video encoding format associated with high-quality video and moderate compression. Eventually, though, platforms will upgrade to the newer H.265, which allows for even higher quality with less compression.
Preset.
Once you have all of these settings, you can create a YouTube Short Export Preset so you don't have to update these settings each time.
Frame Size.
All videos on TikTok have a vertical aspect ratio of 9:16 and have a max size of 1080x1920.
Frame Rate.
TikTok will play videos up to 60 FPS. So, I would choose either 30 or 60 FPS and make sure my export settings matched the Frame Rate I captured the footage in and my Sequence Settings.
Render at Maximum Depth & Use Maximum Render Quality.
Make sure you check both of these.
Hardware vs. Software Encoding.
While you might hear people say Hardware Encoding is better for performance, they mean the computer's performance, not the quality of your video. So, you want to select Software Encoding.
Export Color Space.
Export your project in Rec. 709 so the colors you see in Premiere Pro look the same on TikTok.
Bitrate Settings.
For TikTok, you can use VBR 2 Pass and set the Target and Maximum Bitrate to 10 Mbps.
File Size.
While there's no lower limit, TikTok does have different maximum file size limits for different devices.
Android: 72 MB
iOS: 287 MB
Desktop: 500 MB
You likely won't hit the limits when uploading online or from an iPhone. But you might have to adjust the Target and Maximum Bitrate to keep the file under the Android limit.
Custom Thumbnail.
Like YouTube Shorts, you can't upload a separate Thumbnail file for TikTok. But you can select a frame from your video. You just have to remember to do this before you upload it, as you can't go back and edit it later.
TikTok Settings.
Now, on the upload screen for every TikTok you're posting, you want to click More Options and then make sure Allow High-Quality Uploads is enabled. This, obviously, is going to make sure TikTok is uploading your video with the highest quality settings it can.
Unlike Instagram, you have to enable Allow High-Quality Uploads each time you upload a new TikTok.
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